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  • Tracy Brooks, an auto worker retiree is interviewed as she shows off vintage photos of her family, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023, in Romulus, Mich. She and her father, and grandfather and daughter all worked on assembly lines for one or more of Detroit’s automakers. “We told Britney Johnson (Brooks’ daughter), she’s representing our family,” Brooks jokes when speaking of her daughter who is among tens of thousands of the union’s Ford, General Motors and Stellantis employees who have walked off the job since the strike started Sept. 15. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)Success

    UAW strike especially important for Black workers carrying family legacies and middle-class futures: ‘It meant a lot, being in the union’

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